Read about some of our previous Special Events

An International Poetry Evening took place at Laurel Villa during 2012 and featured the following three guest poets:- Jeffrey Thomson Jeff resides in Maine USA. He is the author of four full-length collections of poetry, two limited-edition art books, and the co-editor of an...

Seamus Heaney Poetry Evening A very special event took place in June 2009, a reading at Laurel Villa by the late Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney. The occasion was the 40th Anniversary of the publication of the poet’s second collection Door Into The Dark which first appeared in June...

A tour through County Derry, whose landscape inspired many of the poet’s best-known works Christopher Somerville The Observer, Sunday 6 December 2009 Passing Laurel Villa, you’d never suspect it was a Tardis. You have to enter this modestly proportioned house on the...